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0 pointsshadowoflight7y ago0 comments

I have seen those exact words to describe Netlify - it's like Geocities, but for the modern web. I have yet to try it out for myself, but I'm thinking I may use it to get a personal site up and running since I have a tendency to take the power of running my own site on my own VPS a bit too far by changing it up (and usually breaking it) frequently...

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tw20190409mhbcd7y ago

There's also Neocities as an acceptable replacement for Geocities. It's also free, unless you want to use your own domain, which requires a $5/mo "donation" to become a Neocities supporter and unlock that and a few other features.

egeozcan7y ago

I wonder how they are doing. I hope they don't share the same fate as Geocities.

tw20190409mhbcd7y ago

The guy who runs the site gave a talk a while back about how crazy cheap it is to host it, and why cloud vendors like Amazon and Google are making suckers out of people.

"High Volume, Bandwidth Heavy Infrastructure On The Cheap"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i6wvix6buI

And I'm pretty sure he's also cryptocoin-rich, anyway.

Aeolun7y ago

If they have but a few supporters I suppose they get all the running costs out of it.

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tw20190409mhbcd7y ago

egeozcan7y ago

I wonder how they are doing. I hope they don't share the same fate as Geocities.

tw20190409mhbcd7y ago

The guy who runs the site gave a talk a while back about how crazy cheap it is to host it, and why cloud vendors like Amazon and Google are making suckers out of people.

"High Volume, Bandwidth Heavy Infrastructure On The Cheap"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i6wvix6buI

And I'm pretty sure he's also cryptocoin-rich, anyway.

Aeolun7y ago

If they have but a few supporters I suppose they get all the running costs out of it.

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